Example sentences of "[vb past] [art] few [noun pl] at " in BNC.
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| 1 | I even practised a few variations at home to see if the system could be improved . |
| 2 | Nicky has no illusions about organic farming : ‘ We made a few mistakes at the beginning . |
| 3 | Yes , I made a few mistakes at first , like cutting up their slices of salami to the thickness of a sliced loaf . |
| 4 | I spent a few hours at house in Delhi , before leaving on Sunday 28th November to catch the 03.45 flight to London . |
| 5 | ‘ Great , ’ he reiterated , ‘ sampled a bit of the local night-life , lost a few francs at the gambling tables , and then found that we could n't drag ourselves away from each other , so we spent the night in a hotel . ’ |
| 6 | ‘ It was a very shaky area and we had one or two incidents with tribes who buzzed a few spears at us ’ , said Mark as he inhaled deeply on another cigarette . |
| 7 | ran away from it you see and then when he came back he came to us and he growled a few times at it , so , but erm , backed off you know |
| 8 | The Thing blinked a few lights at him . |
| 9 | So I rung them again and said it was dangerous and they came out more or less straight away and did the few holes at the top . |
| 10 | For example , if you bought some apples from a market stall and they were mostly bad and you already had a few apples at home and if , say , your bus had arrived , it might be perfectly legitimate to do absolutely nothing about the situation and avoid any discussion about it . |
| 11 | Obviously we had a few injuries at the start of the season , so hopefully we can go from strength to strength now . |
| 12 | Yes because I went to , I only had a few weeks at er and that was and I would n't stick that . |
| 13 | I heard the match on radio 5 an all , although CEEFAX said the ko was 8.00 so I missed a few minutes at the start . |
| 14 | They missed a few kicks at goal but they nailed Northampton to their line and worked up such a storm that they had them scurrying all ways . |